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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

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Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

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You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

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Never confuse movement with action.

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That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

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I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

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A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

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